Thursday, April 6, 2017

The Pushing and Shoving in the world is endless.We are pushed and shoved.And we do our share of pushing and shovingin our great anxiety.And in the middle of thatyou have set down your beloved suffering sonwho was like a sheep led to slaughterwho opened not his mouth.

We seem not able,so we ask you to create space in our lifewhere we may ponder his sufferingand your summons for us to suffer with him,suspecting that suffering is the only way to newness.

So we pray for your church in these Lenten days,when we are driven to denial —not to notice the suffering,not to engage it,not to acknowledge it.So be that way of truth among usthat we should not deceive ourselvesThat we shall see that loss is indeed our gain.We give you thanks for that mystery from which we live.